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UMBRELLA FRAME. I No. 359,844 Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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UNITED STATES trier PATENT JOH1\ T. (JASSIDY, OF JEYVARK, NENV JERSEY, AND JQHN J. RUPP, OF NFVV YORK, N. Y.

UMBRELLA-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,814, dated March 22, 1887.

Application filed May 'I, 1886. Serial No. 201,443. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN T. CASSIDY and JOHN JACOB RUPP, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, and New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrella-Frames; and we do. hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, ref erence being had to the accompanying drawings,and toletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is, more particularly, to reduce the cost of construction and secure increased strength and durability; and it consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a'perspeciivc view of aportion of an umbi'ellalraine. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a perspective view of the sliding piece to which the braces of the frame are secured. Figs. 4 and 5 are views of the inner or lower extremities of said braces. Fig. 6 shows the joint at which the brace and rib of the frame are connected. Fig. 7 is a sectional view showing the construction of the bearing portions for the ribs; and Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate preferred constructions of the said bearings and sliding pieces, as will be hereinafter specifically described.

In said drawings, a, indicates the ordinary stick or handle of the umbrella; b a rib, and c a brace, of the frame thereof. (1 and e indicate the bearings for said rib and brace, re; spectively, the first bearing being permanently fixed to the stick by a' pin, f, asin Fig. 7, or by other suitable means, and thebearing for the brace sliding on said stick in the ordinary manner, to enable the frame to be opened or closed. The said bearings are composed of slotted parts cl (1 and e e", the slots 9 9 being arranged radially ih each of the said parts to allow the radial ribs and braces to.

work therein. By this construction the slots extend from the joint between the two parts, from where the parts first meet, in opposite directions, so that longer slots are secured and greater freedom or scope of action is or may be allowed to the ribs as compared with those in devices heretofore in use, where but one of the bearing parts is slotted. Said slots form tongues h h, which separate the said ribs and braces, keeping the same in their proper relative positions. The said parts are provided with recesses It It, which, when the said parts are together, form a chamber to receive the headed ends on of the brace or rib.

The preferred mode of holding-the parts together is illustrated more clearly in Figs. 8 and 9, in which the tongues of one of the parts are made quite long, and are thus made to be clamped over those of the other, as in Fig. 9, the said tongues performing the double function of clamping the parts together and guiding the rods Z) c.

The heads or ball-like ends of the ribs differ materially from constructions.heretofore employed, in which said ends were perforated to receive a pin or wire, inasmuch as the solid ball-like head is of increased strength and durability, and allows afreedom of move ment pivotally in any direction.

\Ve prefer to unite the brace and rib as in dicated in Figs. 1 and 6, in which the rib is shown to be bent on itself to form an eye, 0, while the outer extremity of the brace is also provided with an eye, 1), formed by bending. By linking the parts together, as shown, increased strength and durability are secured.

The operation of the parts in opening and closing the umbrella is similar to that in ambrellas of ordinary construction.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new is In an umbrella, a bearing, as e, combining therein pieces, as 6 0 which together form a V chamber to receive and hold ends ofthefmmehave. hereunto set our hands this 3d= day of Wires b or 0, one of said parts or pieces being May, 1886.

provided with tongues as h, which form J OH N T. OASSIDY. slots in which said wires work, and which are JOHN J. RUPP. 1 5 bent over the other of said parts to hold the Witnesses: two together, Substantial] y as set forth. CHARLES H. PELL, i In testimony that we 6121i m the foregoing we FREDK. F. CAMPBELL. i 

